(n.) Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.
(n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.
(n.) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(4) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
(5) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(6) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
(7) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(8) The clinical examination must cover all the anatomical detection of lesions of individual parts of the capsular ligaments.
(9) The major mode of failure was ligament disruption in the specimens from young adult humans and avulsion of bone beneath the ligament insertion site in the specimens from older humans.
(10) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
(11) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
(12) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
(13) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
(14) (1986) described the connective tissue thickening and named it the mandibulo-stylohyoid ligament because of its arrangement and attachments.
(15) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
(16) The distinction between a benign and a severe ligamentous sprain may thus be made.
(17) Small extensions from the distopalmar outpouchings were seen and extended axially into the fibers of the suspensory ligament or between the suspensory ligament and the distal accessory ligament of the deep digital flexor tendon.
(18) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(19) Diagnosis and therapy of 125 ruptures of the fibular ligaments and capsulae are reported.
(20) However, at angles of flexion of 30 degrees or less, the amount of posterior translation after section of only the lateral collateral ligament and the deep structures was similar to that noted after isolated section of the posterior cruciate ligament.
Nympha
Definition:
(n.) Same as Nymph, 3.
(n.) Two folds of mucous membrane, within the labia, at the opening of the vulva.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sensitive and reliable enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of antibodies to Cowdria ruminantium in serum and C. ruminantium antigen in Amblyomma hebraeum nymphae is described.
(2) Using a newly isolated strain of Babesia major and a clean strain of laboratory reared Haemaphysalis punctata it was shown that adult female ticks could be alimentarily infected by feeding on infected calves but that larvae and nymphae could not.
(3) An infective stabilate was prepared from nymphae collected on Day 14 and Day 15 post larval infestation.
(4) The warthogs were also infested with 3 flea species, 1 louse species, 8 ixodid tick species, 1 argasid tick and the nymphae of a pentastomid.
(5) Transmission takes place on the 2nd day from the time infected nymphae were placed on the animals and on the 4th-day in the case of adult ticks.
(6) Engorged nymphae were collected from the donkey and the ensuing adult ticks were placed on a susceptible horse.
(7) The entire purification procedure could be completed in 4-5 hours using only either infected sheep tissue or nymphae as starting material.
(8) During the rainy season in the central valley of Cochahbamba, Bolivia, the larvae and nymphae of this tick were found feeding under the tails of dairy cattle as well as in their ears.
(9) Larvae and nymphae of this species hardly succeed in developing on the overspelling of the small dams, this being due more to a discontinuous run of the water in the overspilling than to a to high speed of the water.
(10) Nymphae and female A. hebraeum were less successful in moulting or laying eggs than the corresponding stages of A. marmoreum.
(11) Infection was transmitted trans-stadially in H. m. rufipes and H. truncatum infected as nymphae, and adult H. m. rufipes transmitted infection to a sheep.
(12) No rickettsiae were seen in the larvae and in phase 1 and 2 nymphae of these mites.
(13) The infection may reappear only in the adults or nymphae, or in all 3 stages of the tick's life cycle.
(14) Infected sheep brain, Amblyomma hebraeum nymphae and various mouse organs were used as starting material.
(15) Seven days after larval infestation, unfed, newly moulted nymphae were manually removed to infest a splenectomized donkey showing a patent Babesia caballi infection.
(16) CCHF virus failed to replicate in adults and nymphae of 3 argasid tick species, Argas walkerae, Ornithodorus porcinus porcinus, and O. savignyi, after intracoelomic inoculation and could be reisolated from the ticks no later than 1 day post-inoculation.
(17) Engorged nymphae of 4 ixodid species, Hyalomma marginatum rufipes, H. truncatum, Rhipicephalus evertsi mimeticus, and Amblyomma hebraeum, were inoculated intracoelomically with CCHF virus and assayed for virus content at varying times post-inoculation.
(18) R. sanguineus adults and nymphae were captured in different seasonal periods and were checked for the prevalence of rickettsiae of the Spotted Fever (SF) group.
(19) Paralysis occurred in laboratory rabbits when nymphae were fed on them under constant warm, constant cold and fluctuating ambient winter conditions.
(20) Nymphae were observed up to day 23 p.i., adults being seen from day 15 p.i.